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Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of conservative views. The founding-editor of The Salisbury Review, a conservative political journal, Scruton wrote over 50 books on architecture, art, philosophy, politics, religion, among other topics. Scruton was also Chairman of…
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culture · English philosopher (1944–2020) · philosopher · political scientist · university teacher · composer · politician · journalist · novelist · aesthetician · writer · musician · also Roger Scruton, Roger Vernon Scruton, Professor Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, Scruton
Born 27 February 1944 · Died 12 January 2020 · Q445939
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2026· 6 entries
“largely conducted by shysters and sharks”
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“Rational argument can get us just so far... It can help us to understand the real difference between a faith that commands us to forgive our enemies, and one that commands us to slaughter them. But the leap of faith itself – this placing of your life at God”
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“Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.”
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“We in Britain are entering a dangerous social condition in which the direct expression of opinions that conflict – or merely seem to conflict – with a narrow set of orthodoxies is instantly punished by a band of self-appointed vigilantes.”
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“The feeling when you get right-wing racist and homophobe Roger Scruton sacked as a Tory government adviser”
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2022· 1 entry
Washington Examiner: Roger Scruton’s legacy is to be exaggerated
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Brno (2021).
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2020· 6 entries
The Heritage Foundation: Roger Scruton Was a Giant of Conservatism
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National Catholic Register: Sir Roger Scruton on Connection Between Modern Art and Loss of the Sacred
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Yahoo: Roger Scruton, Philosopher of a ‘Humane and Moderate Politics’
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Yahoo: Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton dies at 75
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Died 2020-01-12.
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“Yes, I am in favor of censorship, but it has to be conducted by people like me. And that's the difficulty (laughs). I'm in favor of encouraging every possible form of self-restraint and parental control. And I certainly don't think that pornography should be protected under the American Constitution.”
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2019· 5 entries
Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2019).
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Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2019).
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That "despite the appeal of the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and many more, it is the shy, cynical Czechs to whom I lost my heart and from whom I have never retrieved it"
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The Polish government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
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When asked if he believed in English independence, he told the New Statesman:
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2018· 1 entry
Argued that a belief in God makes for more beautiful architecture:
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Sappho Award (2016).
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Saying that she had "cast an awful lot of light on our literary tradition" by showing the male as the dominant figure, and defended her against criticism for having used the word "sex" to describe the difference between
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The European University of Tirana awarded him with Doctor Honoris Causa
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2014· 1 entry
Scruton said he supported English independence because he believed it would uphold friendship between England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and because the English would have a say in all matters
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2012· 1 entry
"when it wanders away from art and literature, and I cannot open a journal like Mind or The Philosophical Review without experiencing an immediate sinking of the heart, like opening a door into a morgue
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2010· 2 entries
Delivered the Scottish Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews on "The Face of God", and from 2011 until 2014 he held a quarter-time professorial fellowship at St Andrews in moral philosophy
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That he would no longer defend the view that revulsion against homosexuality can be justified
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2009· 3 entries
And he wrote the libretto to Anna, a two-act opera by David Matthews which premiered at The Grange Festival on 14 July 2023
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Worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D
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Against a permanent move to the United States and sold the house
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2008· 1 entry
A two-day conference was held at Durham University to assess his impact in the field, and in 2012 a collection of essays, Scruton's Aesthetics, edited by Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill, was published by Palgrave Macmill
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2007· 1 entry
Challenged the idea that gay people should have the right to adopt
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2004· 1 entry
Purchased Montpelier, an 18th-century plantation house near Sperryville, Virginia
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2002· 3 entries
That Scruton had been writing about these issues while failing to disclose that he was receiving £54,000 a year from JTI
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Described the effect of the editorship on his life:
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For having written articles about smoking without disclosing that he was receiving a regular fee from Japan Tobacco International (JTI, formerly R
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1999· 2 entries
And his wife – as part of their consultancy work for Horsell's Farm Enterprises – began producing a quarterly briefing paper, The Risk of Freedom Briefing (1999–2007), about the state's control of risk
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Created Horsell's Farm Enterprises, a PR firm that included Japan Tobacco International and Somerfield as clients
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1998· 4 entries
Won Czech Medal of Merit (1998).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University (1998).
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Václav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, presented him with the Medal of Merit (First Class)
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For The Times, three for the Wall Street Journal (two in 1998 and one in 2000), one for City Journal in 2001, and a 65-page pamphlet for the Institute of Economic Affairs, WHO, What, and Why: Trans-national Government, L
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded 1st of June Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
With having provided "the most interesting philosophical attempt as yet to work through the moral issues involved in our treatment of persons as sex partners"
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1993· 2 entries
By the Czech city of Plzeň, and in 1998 he was awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit (First Class) by President Václav Havel
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Bought Sundey Hill Farm in Brinkworth, Wiltshire—35 acres later increased to 100, and a 250-year-old farmhouse – where he lived after returning from the United States
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1990· 3 entries
“de-sanctifying of the human body”
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And spent it working in Brno in the Czech Republic
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“Sexual morality and the liberal consensus”
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1987· 1 entry
Founded his own publisher, The Claridge Press, which he sold to the Continuum International Publishing Group in 2002
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1985· 1 entry
In Brno before being expelled from the country
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1984· 1 entry
The Review published a controversial article by Ray Honeyford, a headmaster in Bradford, questioning the benefits of multicultural education
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1982· 1 entry
Scruton became founding editor of The Salisbury Review, a journal championing conservatism in opposition to Thatcherism, which he edited until 2001
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1978· 1 entry
By Diana Spearman and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil – with the involvement of the Peterhouse Right
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1975· 1 entry
“s works, including Animal Liberation (1975),”
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1974· 1 entry
Along with Hugh Fraser, Jonathan Aitken and John Casey, he became a founding member of the Conservative Philosophy Group dining club, which aimed to develop an intellectual basis for conservatism
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: researcher (1969–1971).
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1967· 1 entry
Began studying for his doctorate at Jesus College and then became a research fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge (1969–1971), where he lived with Laffitte when she was not in France
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1965· 1 entry
Then spent time overseas, some of it teaching at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour in Pau, France, where he met his first wife, Danielle Laffitte
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1961· 1 entry
Studied at The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (1954–1961).
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-02-27.
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